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WorksheetsColonization - Reconstruction Midterm Review
Total questions: 78
Worksheet time: 4hrs 54mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the first permanent English colony in North America?
a)
Jamestown
b)
Virginia Company
c)
Rhode Island
d)
New Amsterdam
2.
The Virginia Company sent people to America to find
a)
Gold
b)
Tobacco
c)
Silver
d)
Corn
3.
What is the House of Burgesses?
a)
First European-type legislative body in the New World
b)
Where they gathered the gold
c)
The main church of the town
d)
Where the President lived
4.
The cultivation of _______ in the New World was labor intensive so they became dependent on _______.
a)
Tobacco; Slavery
b)
Corn; Themselves
c)
Slavery; Tobacco
d)
Gold; Great Britian
5.
The English settlers needed the land for agricultural purposes, so they took over the region owned by Native American Chieftain _____________ .
a)
Powhatan
b)
Pocahontas
c)
Sitting Bull
d)
Geronimo
6.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
a)
Landless rebels wanted harsher action against Native Americans
b)
A Rebellion against Bacon
c)
Colonists wanting to grow something other than tobacco
d)
Native Americans rebelling against settlers for taking their land
7.
The Virginia House of Burgesses was significant because
a)
It passed laws to regulate slavery
b)
It helped gather more land from Native Americans
c)
It went against Great Britain's laws
d)
It helped establish religion in the New World
8.
This British General planned to move the war to the southern states in order to separate those colonies from the revolutionary forces in the North.
a)
Charles Cornwallis
b)
George Washington
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
Marquis De Lafayette
9.
Who established the first New England colonies?
a)
Puritans
b)
Quakers
c)
Protestants
d)
Catholics
10.
What was founded by Religious dissenters who were tolerant of others' beliefs such as Roger Williams?
a)
Rhode Island
b)
Massachusetts
c)
Virginia
d)
New York
11.
If the king had control over a colony, he would appoint 2 types of people
a)
Royal governor and partially elected legislature
b)
A Native American & English Colonist
c)
A member of Parliament and a partially elected legislature
d)
a royal governor and a member of parliament
12.
This allowed partial church membership for the children & grandchildren of the original puritans
a)
Half-way Covenant
b)
Metacom
c)
Indentured Servitude
d)
Salem Witch Trials
13.
An early & bloody conflict between English colonists & Native Americans.
a)
King Phillips War
b)
French & Indian War
c)
War of 1812
d)
Bacon's Rebellion
14.
King Phillip's Native American name was
a)
Metacom
b)
Powhatan
c)
Bacon
d)
Sitting Bull
15.
This was caused by extreme religious faith, stress from a growing population with bad relations with Native Americans, & narrow opportunities for women in Puritan society
a)
Salem Witch Trials
b)
Bacon's Rebellion
c)
Half-Way Covenant
d)
King Phillip's War
16.
Pennsylvania was a colony founded by the religiously tolerant _______ led by _________.
a)
Quakers; William Penn
b)
Puritans; Roger Williams
c)
slaves; Powhatan
d)
Colonists; Anne Hutchinson
17.
New York was settled by the Dutch who called it ________.
a)
New Amsterdam
b)
New York
c)
New Dutch
d)
New France
18.
The Theory that Earth had a limited supply of wealth in the form of natural resources such as gold & silver.
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Half-Way Covenant
c)
Great Awakening
d)
Transatlantic trade
19.
Parliament used this to control the American colonies trade-wise across the sea.
a)
Transatlantic trade
b)
Middle Passage
c)
Indentured Servitude
d)
Half-way Covenant
20.
This refers to the sea voyage that carried Africans to North America.
a)
Middle Passage
b)
Transatlantic Trade
c)
Social Mobility
d)
Great Awakening
21.
This Founding Father is well known for his ideas of social mobility & individualism but was also a business man, inventor, author & printer.
a)
Benjamin Franklin
b)
George Washington
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
John Adams
22.
The belief that each believer should seek out their own personal and emotional relationship with God which cause this huge movement in the 1730s-1740s.
a)
Great Awakening
b)
Half-way Covenant
c)
Social Mobility
d)
Salem Witch Trials
23.
War in 1754 when Great Britain challenged France for control over certain territories in North America
a)
French & Indian War
b)
War of 1812
c)
King Phillip's War
d)
Bacon's Rebellion
24.
Who won the French & Indian War?
a)
Great Britain
b)
France
c)
Native Americans
d)
Colonists
25.
After the French & Indian War, the ________ forced France to turn over control of Canada & all land east of the Mississippi River
a)
Treaty of Paris 1763
b)
Proclamation of 1763
c)
Articles of Confederation
d)
Treaty of Paris 1783
26.
______________ stated that Americans were forbidden from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains
a)
Proclamation of 1763
b)
Intolerable Acts
c)
Treaty of Paris 1763
d)
Northwest Ordinance
27.
This required colonists to print newspapers, legal documents, etc. on paper bearing special stamps
a)
Stamp Act
b)
Intolerable Acts
c)
Proclamation of 1763
d)
Treaty of Paris 1783
28.
This allowed British officials accused of major crimes to be tried in England & forced the colonists to house British troops on their property.
a)
Intolerable Acts
b)
Stamp Act
c)
Proclamation of 1763
d)
Treaty of Paris 1763
29.
Colonists called ____________ to protest the intolerable acts & Stamp Act so that they could form colonial militias to resists enforcement of these acts.
a)
First Continental Congress
b)
Committees of Correspondence
c)
Sons of Liberty
d)
Daughters of Liberty
30.
The Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty were two examples of the ________.
a)
Committees of Correspondence
b)
Intolerable Acts
c)
Great Awakening
d)
Social Mobility
31.
Thomas Paine wrote this which had a huge effect on many Americans that supported independence.
a)
Common Sense
b)
Great Awakening
c)
Stamp Act
d)
Social Mobility
32.
If the Sons of Liberty damaged British property, what did the Daughters of Liberty do?
a)
wove homespun fabric to make clothes & other goods for colonists in order to not rely on British imports
b)
Also destroyed British property including government offices & rich homes
c)
Threw the tea into the harbor (Boston Tea Party)
d)
refused to marry British soldiers
33.
Who wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence?
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
John Adams
c)
Benjamin Franklin
d)
George Washington
34.
Some of the phrases in the Declaration of Independence came from this philosopher who believed in individual rights
a)
John Locke
b)
John Hancock
c)
Benjamin Franklin
d)
Thomas Jefferson
35.
This was a French political thinker who came up with the separate branches of government for the Declaration of Independence.
a)
Marquis De LaFayette
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
Napoleon
d)
John Hancock
36.
This Commander in Chief of the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River to surprise attack on a fort held by Hessian mercenaries fighting for the British
a)
George Washington
b)
John Adams
c)
Benjamin Franklin
d)
Thomas Jefferson
37.
Washington & his troops spent the winter of 1777-1778 in __________, Pennsylvania.
a)
Valley Forge
b)
Jamestown
c)
Yorktown
d)
Harrisburg
38.
The American Revolutionary War came to an end when the British surrendered at _________.
a)
Yorktown
b)
Jamestown
c)
New York
d)
Atlanta
39.
When the United States won it's independence, it gained control of the land stretching to the ____________.
a)
Mississippi River
b)
Appalachian Mountains
c)
Louisiana Purchase
d)
Northwest Ordinance
40.
This was the first government of the United States between the end of the American Revolution & the Constitutional Convention.
a)
Articles of Confederation
b)
Declaration of Independence
c)
Proclamation of 1763
d)
Bill of Rights
41.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
a)
Series of protests by American farmers against state & local enforcement of tax collection
b)
Same as Bacon's Rebellion
c)
War against the intolerable acts & stamp act
d)
Another name for the revolutionary war
42.
This had to do with the different states sizes & how they would be represented in the new government
a)
Great Compromise
b)
Great Awakening
c)
Three-Fifth Compromise
d)
Articles of Confederation
43.
This allowed a state to count their slaves as representation for the House
a)
Three-Fifth Compromise
b)
Great Compromise
c)
Bill of Rights
d)
Black Codes
44.
This group of people believed that a government created by the constitution would be too powerful & would eliminate the power of the states.
a)
Anti-Federalists
b)
Colonists
c)
Puritans
d)
Quakers
45.
The ___________ papers were a series of articles written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and others that supported the ratification of the Constitution.
a)
Federalist
b)
Anti-Federalist
c)
Bill of Rights
d)
Articles of Confederation
46.
Madison created the ________ which was to be added to the Constitution that included a statement of state's rights.
a)
Bill of Rights
b)
Articles of Confederation
c)
Federalist Papers
d)
Declaration of Independence
47.
The crisis that showed Washington's authority and also how states reacted if they didn't like a law.
a)
Whiskey Rebellion
b)
Shay's Rebellion
c)
Bacon's Rebellion
d)
War of 1812
48.
Washington was against political parties, which were also known as ________.
a)
Factions
b)
Democrat
c)
Republican
d)
Whig
49.
Who won the presidential election of 1796?
a)
John Adams
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
George Washington
d)
Benjamin Franklin
50.
Jefferson & Madison argued that states could refuse to enforce federal laws they did not agree with. This was also called ________.
a)
State Right's Concepts
b)
Bill of Rights
c)
Factions
d)
Great Compromise
51.
This law organized new states so that they would be equal to the existing members of the union.
a)
Northwest Ordinance
b)
Great Compromise
c)
Articles of Confederation
d)
5th Amendement
52.
Sold to the United States from France for $15 Million
a)
Louisiana Territory
b)
Northwest Territory
c)
Manifest Destinty
d)
New York City
53.
Men that led the Louisiana expedition.
a)
Lewis & Clark
b)
Madison & Adams
c)
Washington & Jefferson
d)
Stanton & Whitney
54.
Another term for american sailors being forced against their will to serve in British navy
a)
Impressment
b)
Factions
c)
temperance
d)
monroe doctrine
55.
Second war of independence & the last time that Britain & U.S. went to war
a)
War of 1812
b)
Revolutionary War
c)
WW1
d)
French & Indian War
56.
Another word for toll roads
a)
turnpikes
b)
canals
c)
cotton gin
d)
suffrage
57.
The most famous canal that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
a)
Erie Canal
b)
Panama Canal
c)
New York Canal
d)
Dutch Canal
58.
This document defined an aspect of U.S. foreign policy which still holds today.
a)
Monroe Doctrine
b)
Northwest Ordinance
c)
Bill of Rights
d)
Articles of Confederation
59.
The cotton gin, which was a big part of the Industrial Revolution, was create by
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Harriet Tubman
d)
Dred Scott
60.
Obvious fate of the United States expanding from sea to sea.
a)
Manifest Destiny
b)
Northwest Ordinance
c)
Louisiana Territory
d)
Seneca Falls Conference
61.
The idea that people should drink less alcohol.
a)
temperance
b)
abolition
c)
turnpike
d)
faction
62.
People who believed that slavery should be against the law.
a)
Abolitionists
b)
Suffragists
c)
Colonists
d)
Federalists
63.
This person wanted full rights of citizenship for women such as voting rights.
a)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Andrew Jackson
d)
James Monroe
64.
America's first women's rights convention
a)
Seneca Falls
b)
Gettysburg
c)
Louisiana
d)
Impressment
65.
This president sought a stronger presidency & executive branch
a)
Andrew Jackson
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
John Adams
d)
Martin Van Buren
66.
The belief that the United States was superior to other nations
a)
American Nationalism
b)
Popular Sovereignty
c)
Jacksonian Democracy
d)
Temperance
67.
This gave the settlers in all new territories the right to decide whether they would be a free or slave state.
a)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Three-Fifth Compromise
d)
Dred Scott Decision
68.
The doctrine that played a huge part in the Kansas-Nebraska Act that was a pro-slavery doctrine.
a)
Popular Sovereignty
b)
Abolition
c)
Temperance
d)
Dred Scott Decision
69.
Supreme Court decided that slaves were not citizens of the US & could be taken from any US territory.
a)
Dred Scott Decison
b)
Popular Sovereignty
c)
Suffrage
d)
Emancipation Proclamation
70.
This abolitionist decided to fight slavery with violence & killing.
a)
John Brown
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
Dred Scott
d)
Abraham Lincoln
71.
President of the Union
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Ulysses S. Grant
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
Jefferson Davis
72.
President of the Confederacy
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Ambraham Lincoln
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
73.
General of the Confederate Military
a)
Robert E. Lee
b)
Jefferson Davis
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
74.
General of the Union Military
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
Jefferson Davis
75.
Freed slaves in Confederate States
a)
Emancipation Proclamation
b)
Seconf Inaugural Address
c)
Dred Scott Decison
d)
Popular Sovereignty
76.
Bloodiest Day of the Civil War
a)
Battle of Antietam
b)
Battles of Gettysburg
c)
Battle of Atlanta
d)
Seige of Vicksburg
77.
Turning point of the Civil War
a)
Battle of Gettysburg
b)
Battle of Antietam
c)
Seige of Vicksburg
d)
Battle of Atlanta
78.
Abraham Lincoln's Speech "with malice toward none; with charity for all."
a)
Second Inaugural Address
b)
Gettysburg Address
c)
Emancipation Proclamation
d)
Habeas Corpus
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